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Your Adventure in Archaeology Starts Here!

ShovelBums is the worlds largest provider of Archaeology, Academic, and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) related jobs. Since 1999 ShovelBums has filled over 36,000 positions in academia, archaeology and CRM.

If you are looking to start a career in archaeology or CRM it begins, and ends, here. This is where your peers and mentors all started (except the really old ones that I worked with back in the day when we only heard about jobs by word of mouth, fax machines, and printed letters).

To join the ShovelBums mailing list please Follow this link and there are instructions on how to join. It only takes a couple of minutes and it is mostly painless.

First you need to be a member of the ShovelBums mailing list. To join the ShovelBums mailing list please Follow this linkand there are simple instructions on how to join. It only takes a couple of minutes and it is mostly painless. The mailing list is only for jobs so you will not be flooded with email. I strongly recommend you use a work email to join.

After you are a member of the ShovelBums mailing list you can then send a message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. *from* the account you registered. Every announcement is screened to be sure it has all of the relevant information present (see below). The message will then be approved right away and it will immediately be sent out to the 18,0000 members of ShovelBums.

The great thing? If one of the members of ShovelBums is not the right fit for the position, it is likely they know someone who is! And with ~18,000 members your ad has an amazing, and instant, reach. The only people on ShovelBums are people looking for work, students trying to find out what the job market is like, and academics helping to prepare students for a future in Archaeology/Anthropology and CRM.

You can read more about the how and why you should be using ShovelBums for your academic or CRM position announcements here (Hint: its cheap, fast, and huge!)

Well if you are slacker you can view the current jobs here (note that link brings you off site. My mailing list host changed settings and messed up my ability to have those posted here, I am working on a fix).

BUT! You really should join the ShovelBums mailing list to be notified immediately by email when a job comes out. Besides the immediacy of email, the emails you receive have full contact information in them, when the job postings that are archived online they have their email addresses obfuscated for security. So show your future employer you are smart and join the email list, it is relatively low volume and you can choose a digest mode. But it really is the smart way to keep current on jobs.

My mom, who find herself quite clever, came up with the term in the 80's when I was describing to her what it was like being on the road doing "contract" archaeology back in the day. The term "can" be pejorative if used by someone who is not an archaeologist, a pompous professor who fails to realize that the majority of their students who end up pursuing a career *will* will end up as a ShovelBum doing CRM at some point, or a State or Fed employee who is secretly jealous of your capricious career. However, within the field of professionals, ShovelBums is a term used to signify that mutual understanding between professionals acknowledging that one knows what it is like to live on the road having to do the highest quality work, in the least amount of time, under arduous conditions. You can read more about the origin of the term ShovelBums here.

Errata ShovelBums in undergoing some intermittent upgrades. Sorry if you run into any glitches. If you do. Feel free to drop me a not using the contact form (it is located in the left hand column at the bottom).

If you want to be an Archaeologist there is one thing that is required no matter where you go. You have to have a field school.

A field school will not only open your mind first hand to the wonders of archaeology and other cultures but it will also lay the ground work for building relationships that will span your whole career. Some of the people you meet during field school will become friends who you will still be socializing with 40 years from now. But always remember this, Archaeology and anthropology are incredibly small fields and everyone you interact with today will somehow affect your career tomorrow. So do not be a jerk at field school, do not go in believing you are the best thing to hit anthropology since Margret Mead. Go with an open mind, go as an anthropologist and observe, learn, and assimilate.

So go browse ShovelBum's Comprehensive International Guide to Archaeology, Anthropology and CRM Field Schools and find a great field school. I guarantee you will have the best experience of your life! You have this one rare opportunity in your life, and your new career, to hand pick which one of some of the most interesting sites that are currently active anywhere in the world, that you want to work on. And even if you don't plan on becoming a professional archaeologist? A field school will change you, in a positive way, forever.

Trust me (I am a scientist!) when I tell you this opportunity is golden. Go for it.

That would be awesome! The deal always was that when you do find a job or field school through ShovelBums and we cross paths (and you had some extra per-diem cash in your pocket) I would love for you to buy me a beer and tell me about your career. More often than not I ended up buying a few rounds too. Not really a very efficient business model, but it is more fun. Unfortunately the truth is I rarely get to cross paths with people ShovelBums has helped so I set up this linkwhere you can virtually buy me a beer if you like and I will drink it in real life :-) The best part? If you do support ShovelBums this way you get to have your name inscribed on The Hall Of The Chosen and receive eternal good field and lab karma - quite a bargain!

And if you are broke and can't donate? Welcome to your profession! :-) I'll buy the drinks. But no worries, I run ShovelBums solely to help you out. And I do hope ShovelBums is able to help you in a meaningful way in your career and someday we get to meet up and have a drink either virtually or in person.

Current Jobs on ShovelBums. Click Jobs! at the top of the page for a complete list.

· Job Title: Sr. Cultural Resources Project Manager · Company Name: SWCA Environmental Consultants · Location: Pasadena, California, United States, 91105 Do you thrive in the pursuit of ensuring excellence in environmental consulting services for your clients? SWCA Environmental Consultants is expanding their team and looking for dynamic individuals who are following their passion in delivering the highest-quality project work. Our Pasadena office offers a unique work environment and our California and Pacific Islands cultural resources program, one of the largest in the region, specializes in complex and challenging projects. Our diverse range of clients includes prominent electric transmission utilities,…

LSA Associates, Inc. (LSA) is a diversified environmental,transportation, and community planning organization. We are recognized asinnovators in the field of environmental impact assessment, and we havedeveloped a reputation among clients and professional peers in both the publicand private sectors as being thorough, innovative, and objective.
LSA’s San Luis Obispo Office is seeking a qualifiedindividual for a position as an Archaeologist/Senior Archaeologist. LSA is adiversified environmental, transportation, and community planning organization.The successful candidate will have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree inArchaeology, or Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology, and a minimum of 7-10years of experience in Cultural Resources Management…

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| Office Location: | Tulsa, Oklahoma | | Discipline: | Environmental |
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| ENERCON Services, is an employee owned, premier Engineering and Environmental Services Company. Our double-digit year-over-year growth is fueled by the quality of work we perform as an EOC (Engineer of Choice) to a large base of the power facilities in the US, as well as to an expanding global customer base. We currently have immediate openings for multiple part-time/on-call Archaeological staff for in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In…

From across the pond. Position closes tomorrow (December 2nd). For a full description and link to apply: http://shovelbums.net/l/fort-cumberland-uk-artefact-analysis
Archaeologist (Artefact Analysis)
Location: Fort Cumberland, Hampshire, PO4 9LD
Contract type: Temporary
Salary: £26, 658 / Full Time / 6 months FTC
Reference No: 7970
Final applications 2 December 2016
Description
We are seeking an archaeologist specialising in finds analysis to join Historic England`s multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists, archaeological scientists and archaeological archive and data management experts. Based at Fort Cumberland, Southsea, you`ll experience a vibrant research environment, within the finest 18th century bastion trace fort in England and work on material…